Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus

Previous names

  • Central Archives under the People’s Commissariat of Education of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) – from June to August 1922
  • Central Archives surbordinate to the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR – until 1927
  • Central Archival Administration under the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR – until September 1938
  • Central Archival Administration under the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the BSSR – until April, 1939
  • Archival Division of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the BSSR – until November, 1943
  • State Archives Division of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the BSSR – until December, 1944
  • State Archives Administration of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the BSSR (subsequently the Archival Administration under the Ministry of Internal Affairs) – until 1960
  • Archival Administration under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR – until September, 1972
  • Main Archival Administration under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR – until September, 1991
  • Main Archival Administration under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus – until October, 1992.
  • Committee on Archives and Records Management under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus – until September, 1994.
  • Committee on Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus (subordinate to the President’s Administration of the Republic of Belarus) – until January, 1997
  • State Committee on Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus – until September, 2001
  • National Center for Archives and Records Management subordinate to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus – until June 2002
  • Committee for Archives and Records Management under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (Belkomarkhiv) – until May 2006